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...some fateful miscalculation, the U.S.-owned oil tanker Torrey Canyon, en route from Kuwait to Wales, had run aground and begun to break up on a reef 18 miles off the southwest tip of Britain; part of its 118,000 tons of crude oil began leaking into the sea. Like great oozy creatures from 20,000 leagues under, oil slicks more than 20 miles long were soon slinking toward southwest Britain's golden holiday beaches, which draw $300 million a year from tourists...
...coordinate local and national measures, named it "Operation Canute," after the 11th century English king who ordered the waves to recede-and got dunked. When all hopes of salvaging the tanker and its remaining cargo died, Wilson ordered several flights of fighter-bombers to zero in on the Torrey Canyon, then headed for his vacation retreat on the oil-threatened Scilly Isles to watch the action. For three days, the planes plastered the Torrey Canyon with bombs, kerosene, napalm and rockets. At least one-third of the oil cargo went up in flames...
...action shifts to a Navy cruiser where Captain John Wayne greets two Japanese torpedoes with relish, warmed by the prospect of "a gut-bustin', mother-lovin' Navy war!" First as captain, then as Admiral "Rock" Torrey, whose ultimate mission is to oust the enemy from the fictional islands of Gavabutu and Levu-Vana, Wayne delivers a bedrock performance that provides anchorage for the shipshape supporting cast. Pick of the lot is Nurse Patricia Neal, who enlivens Wayne's hours ashore with straightforward passion. Wayne woos his long-estranged son (Brandon deWilde) away from the public-relations...
Among the 12 faculty members who have already agreed to participate are professors George Wald, Robert P. Levine, John G. Torrey, and possibly Matthew A. Meselson and William R. Sistrom...
...Chase, if you are so earnest an advocate of the liberal concept of the public interest, you are a member of the wrong political party. Nonetheless, I am bound to say that the Republican Party is fortunate in having so able an apologist. It needs the best. --Derek Torrey Winans '61, President, Harvard Young Democratic Club...